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Thursday, May 31, 2012

We have two exciting webinars for you next week - Researching Your German Ancestors by Kory Meyerink (Wednesday June 6) and Genealogy Idol (Saturday, June 9). Registration (free) is available for both at www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/webinars.asp.

Researching Your German Ancestors by Kory Meyerink, AG

More Americans have German ancestry than any other ethnic group and German research sources are some of the most detailed and helpful in all of Europe, so what are you waiting for? Most German families can be documented back to the 1600s and this webinar will help you get started. You don’t need to speak German or travel to Germany to have wonderful research success. We’ll cover the basics, including the language, records, places and the tools you need to begin your journey to find your German ancestors.

The live webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, June 6, 2012 at 2PM Eastern U.S., so register today to reserve your virtual seat.

Genealogy Idol

The second-ever Genealogy Idol competition will be held Saturday, June 9, 2012. The three finalists have now been chosen and the winner will be decided by YOU! All you have to do is register for the live event (free), watch the 1-hour competition from your computer, and vote. In the three rounds of competition, the three contestants will demonstrate their gen-tech expertise and try to woo you with their favorite gen-tech secrets. Everyone will learn - but only one will leave with the title of "Jamboree Genealogy Idol 2012" AND a Flip-Pal mobile scanner.

Legacy Family Tree's Geoff Rasmussen will host the competition which will be broadcast live via the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank, California on Saturday. Contestants are: Gale French, Texas; Tammy Hepps, New York; and Tessa Keough, Oregon.

The one-hour competition will feature three rounds of topics. Each contestant will have five minutes to impress you with their demonstrations. Regardless of whether you will be in a seat at Jamboree or in a virtual seat from your home, you will see and hear it all - live! At the very end, YOU, the online audience will decide the winner by voting using the webinar's poll technology. Everyone will go home a winner, but the one with the most votes will go home with both the title of "Jamboree Genealogy Idol" and a free Flip-Pal Mobile scanner.

The live webinar is scheduled for Saturday, June 9, 2012 at 11AM Eastern U.S. (8AM California time), so register today to reserve your virtual seat.

Make sure you have the latest version of Java installed on your computer. Check at www.java.com.

Click on the webinar link (found in confirmation and reminder emails) prior to the start of the webinar. Arrive early (30 minutes or so) as the room size is limited to the first 1,000 arrivals that day.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

If you have New York ancestors you need to watch the recording of Thomas MacEntee's webinar, Researching Your New York Ancestors. Thomas began with a brief history of New York, then explained New York migration patterns, followed by his 10 Resources You Should Now, and finished with a Knickerbocker's Secret Links. Well done Thomas!

View the recording

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 30 minute recording of Researching Your New York Ancestors is now available to view in our webinar archives. Visit www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/webinars.asp to watch. It is available for free until June 11, 2012.

Pre-order the webinar-on-CD

Own your own copy of Researching Your New York Ancestors by purchasing the webinar-on-CD for just $9.95. It includes the 1 hour 30 minute recording of the class, the complete Q/A session, and 4 pages of handouts. Click here for more information or to purchase.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

While many of our ancestors may have come from New York, finding them and the records left behind is another story. New York research offers certain challenges and it helps to know the strategies needed to tackle those Empire State records. In this webinar, you’ll not only get a quick lesson in New York State history and understand why the different regions are important, you’ll also learn about special record sets and resources unique to New York. Whether your ancestor was a Knickerbocker or an immigrant, you’ll be in a “New York State of mind“ with these research tips, tricks and tools.

The live webinar is scheduled for Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at 2PM Eastern U.S., so register today to reserve your virtual seat. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. Join at least 15-20 minutes early (maybe 30-40 minutes early due to the popularity of this webinar) to ensure your virtual seat. When you join, if you receive a message that the webinar is full, you know we've reached the 1,000 limit, so we invite you to view the recording which should be published to the webinar archives within an hour or two of the event's conclusion.

About the presenter

Thomas MacEntee is a professional genealogist specializing in the use of technology and social media to improve genealogical research and as a means of interacting with others in the family history community. Utilizing over 25 years of experience in the information technology field, Thomas writes and lectures on the many ways in which blogs, Facebook and Twitter can be leveraged to add new dimensions to the genealogy experience. As the creator of GeneaBloggers.com he has organized and engaged a community of over 2,000 bloggers to document their own journeys in the search for ancestors. Through his business High-Definition Genealogy, Thomas is available for speaking engagements, workshops and other events. In addition, he can appear via WebEx for virtual presentations and distance education events. High-Definition Genealogy also performs market research within the genealogy industry and has proven track-record of mapping out the genealogy industry landscape for clients seeking to transact business and interact in the field.

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About the Webinar:Those who fought for the king during the American Revolutionary War and fled to Canada were known as Loyalists. Learn how to determine if your Revolutionary ancestor was a Loyalist, and how to prove it. Membership in United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada will be discussed.

Who Should Attend:Anyone who in intereseted in Loyalist ancestry.Anyone who has or thinks they may have a Loyalist ancestor.Volunteers, librarians and genealogists who want to help their patrons learn about Loyalist ancestry.

Sunday, May 20, 2012

The Georgia Genealogical Society is pleased to sponsor the presentation "Exploring the Georgia Archives Vault" with Kayla Barrett on May 21st, 2012.

Summary: New information is being added
the Virtual Vault on an on-going basis. Learn about what’s new in
the vault, the best ways to search for information, and how to download and
print.

Presenter: Kayla Barrett has served as Descriptive Services Manager
at the Georgia Archives for the past ten years and has worked at the Archives
since 1996. Prior to that, she was
Special Collections Archivist at Auburn University for five years, Librarian
for University Archives at Oklahoma State University for two years, and worked
at the University of Oklahoma’s Western History Collections for three
years. Originally from Wichita,
Kansas, she has Bachelors’ and Masters’ degrees in History from Wichita State
University and a Masters in Library and Information Studies from the University
of Oklahoma. As Descriptive
Services Manager, Kayla is in charge of arrangement and description of the
Archives’ state records and manuscript collections holdings of both the paper
records and digital or scanned collections.

After
registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
joining the Webinar. You will use your unique URL in your confirmation email to
logon to the live broadcast on the 21st of May.

Genealogical societies and organizations are always looking for ways to attract new members, new income streams as well as new benefits for their existing members.

Participating in the Flip-Pal® mobile scanner Affiliate Program is one way to tackle all these issues. By partnering with Flip-Pal, you’ll create a way that your society can earn commissions of up to 13% on Flip-Pal® mobile scanners and accessories purchased through your affiliate link.

In this fun and informative webinar, you'll learn from Robin Evans and Thomas MacEntee how to get your society's Flip-Pal® mobile scanner Affiliate Program up and running in no time!

Your Head in the Cloud and Your Feet on the Ground with Bret Petersen. To attend the presentation, visit http://www.virtual.ugagenealogy.org and, on the date and time of the meeting, click on the UGA logo. Enter the presentation as a guest.

We are pleased to announce that the LIVE meeting will be open to the public! Share, tweet & spread the word! This meeting will be recorded and placed in the members area of the website (http://www.ugagenealogy.org) where current members have access to all of the past meetings!

About UGA's Virtual Chapter Meetings

The Utah Genealogical Association is pleased to present a monthly "Virtual Chapter" meeting in which invited guests make presentations on topics of current interest in the field of family history and genealogy.

Tuesday, May 15, 2012

On Tuesday, June 12, at 8 PM Central, Peggy Clemens Lauritzen, AG will present, The War of 1812 – America’s “Forgotten” War, where you will learn about the War of 1812 and the records available to help further your genealogy research. To attend this webinar, register at https://www3.gotomeeting.com/register/361887982.

Last week's webinar, Some Great, Seldom-Used, Resources: A Genealogical Potpourri, presented by Timothy Pinnick is now available to ISGS members in the Members Section of the ISGS website (http://ilgensoc.org/members.php).

Friday, May 11, 2012

The Friends of the
National Archives-Southeast Region, Inc., are please to sponsor the
presentation "Social
Networking: New Horizons for Genealogists" with Thomas MacEntee on
May 14, 2012.

Summary: Thousands
of genealogists and family historians have discovered new ways to expand and
improve their genealogy endeavors using social networking, also called social
media networking. Learn the basics of blogging, Twitter, Facebook, wikis and
more in an easy-to-follow session that cuts through all the hype and the lingo.

Description: Did
you know that the over 55 crowd is the fastest growing group of Facebook users?
Did you know that Twitter is not the domain of the much younger “texting” crowd
but is used by an older more savvy group of people? Did you ever wonder how and
if these programs, along with others such as blogs and wikis, can be used to
help genealogists? Wonder no more as we explore what makes up the
oft-mystifying term “social networking” and how each program is currently being
used by genealogists and family historians of all ages.

Thomas MacEntee is a professional genealogist specializing in the use of
technology and social media to improve genealogical research and as a means of
interacting with others in the family history community

After
registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about
joining the Webinar. You will use your unique URL in your confirmation email to
logon to the live broadcast on the 14th of May.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Our 2012 webinar schedule just got even better. We have opened registration for five additional webinars bringing our number of webinars in 2012 to 43. That's over 60 hours of the highest quality of genealogy education available to you - from your computer - and all at no cost to you.

Genealogy Education Where You Are!

Here's the lineup for the rest of the year. The brand new classes are in red. Our webinar brochure has also been updated so we encourage you to print it, email it, and share it with your friends, family, genealogy society and local Family History Center.

"Crossing the Pond" with Michael John Neill will be hosted on 10 May 2012 at 11:00 AM Central Time.

This hour-long presentation will discuss ways to track ancestral origins across the Atlantic, with a focus on the 18th and 19th centuries. Problem-solving strategies for individuals from a variety of European areas will be discussed with a concentration on fully utilizing American sources in order to pinpoint the area of origin with as much precision as possible. Additional details are on our site at http://www.casefileclues.com/webinars_neill.htm

Monday, May 7, 2012

The second-ever Genealogy Idol competition will be held Saturday, June 9, 2012. The three participants have now been chosen and the winner will be decided by YOU! All you have to do is register for the live event (free), watch the 1-hour competition from your computer, and vote.

In the three rounds of competition, the three contestants will demonstrate their gen-tech expertise and try to woo you with their favorite gen-tech secrets. Everyone will learn - but only one will leave with the title of "Jamboree Genealogy Idol 2012." Legacy Family Tree's Geoff Rasmussen will host the event which will be broadcast live via the Southern California Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank, California.

The Topics

Applicants will present three 5-minute presentations in these categories:

Round 1: Favorite Technology Tip

Round 2: Genealogy Serendipity story

Round 3: Technology website or blog

While their specific topics will be a surprise, everyone should learn a new thing or two about genealogy technology.

The Contestants

Each contestant will be broadcasting from their homes across the country. Here they are:

The Competition

The one-hour competition will feature three rounds of topics. Each contestant will have five minutes to impress you with their demonstrations. Regardless of whether you will be in a seat at Jamboree or in a virtual seat from your home, you will see and hear it all - live! At the very end, YOU, the online audience will decide the winner by voting using the webinar's poll technology. Everyone will go home a winner, but the one with the most votes will go home with both the title of "Jamboree Genealogy Idol" and a free Flip-Pal Mobile scanner from Legacy Family Tree.

Register

If you want to watch the demonstrations and vote for the winner, you need to register. Registration is free but space is limited to the first 1,000 people to join that day. And if you are attending Jamboree in Burbank, register for this special breakfast event and join us in Convention Center Academy 6. Breakfast starts at 7:30am and the webinar begins at 8:00am (9am Mountain, 10am Central, 11am Eastern).

Watch the recording of the first-ever Genealogy Idol competition

The first-ever Genealogy Idol competition was held earlier this year at RootsTech in Salt Lake City. Elyse Doerflinger, Elizabeth Clark, Michael Hait, and Marian Pierre-Louis gave twelve 3-minute presentations. Watch the entire show here.

Join us for this FREE webinar sponsored by the Southern California Genealogical Society.

Are you overwhelmed with the number of online resources for genealogical
research? Are you constantly working with unorganized bookmarks or
favorites? Printing out lists of websites you use most? Learn how to
build a research toolbox that is organized, easy-to-use, and can be
accessed from almost anywhere.

Thomas MacEntee is a professional genealogist specializing in the use of
technology and social media to improve genealogy research and as a way
to connect with others in the family history community. Thomas writes
and lectures on the many ways in which blogs, Facebook and Twitter can
be leveraged to add new dimensions to the genealogy experience.

The Jamboree Extension Series allows genealogists from around the world
to take advantage of the types of sessions that are offered at the
Southern California Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank, CA. The series is
offered as a service to the genealogical community. Webinars are
scheduled on the first Saturday and third Wednesday of each month. The
complete list of webinars can be found at http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/JamboreeExtensionSeries2012.htm. If you can't click the link, copy and paste the URL into your browser.

Jamboree Extension Sessions will be archived and available to SCGS
members following the webinar. Membership information can be found at www.scgsgenealogy.com.

Title:
"Building a Research Toolbox" Webinar

Speaker:
Thomas MacEntee

Date:
Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Time:
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT

After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the Webinar.

Only
a small percentage of the bearers of any surname ever emigrated to the
USA. Yet today there are often more name bearers alive in the US than in
the original host country. If you want to identify the origin of a
surname, you need to DNA test name bearers outside the USA.

Chris
Pomery is a writer and historian with a special interest in the way
historians are developing their uses of DNA testing. Since 2000, he has
written two books regarding the use of DNA in genealogy, lectured to
more than fifty family history groups around England, written two
academic papers and dozens of articles for family history magazines, and
been interviewed by many national and local radio stations. Chris
maintains a consulting arrangement with Family Tree DNA. He teaches
online courses on the topic of DNA testing.

The
Jamboree Extension Series allows genealogists from around the world to
take advantage of the types of sessions that are offered at the Southern
California Genealogy Jamboree in Burbank, CA. The series is offered as a
service to the genealogical community. Webinar presentations are
scheduled on the first Saturday and third Wednesday of each month. The
complete list of webinars can be found at http://www.scgsgenealogy.com/JamboreeExtensionSeries2012.htm.

Jamboree
Extension Sessions will be archived and available to SCGS members
following the webinar. Membership information can be found at www.scgsgenealogy.com.

Title:
FREE Webinar
"The Effect of the Founders: Why It's Useful to DNA Test People Living Outside the USA"

If you have Pennsylvania ancestors you need to watch the recording of today's webinar, "Researching Your Pennsylvania Ancestors," by Lisa Alzo. One viewer commented, "I have been stumbling along like a toddler and now I think I can walk!" Pennsylvania can be a difficult state to research, but with Lisa's suggestions you might just break down that brick wall. During the webinar, a viewer wrote in saying that "thanks to one of Lisa's suggestions, I just found the marriage record of my g-g-g-grandmother!" Congrats on your find and thanks again to Lisa for a terrific webinar!

View the recording

If you could not make it to the live event or just want to watch it again, the 1 hour 30 minute recording of Researching Your Pennsylvania Ancestors is now available to view in our webinar archives. Visit www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/webinars.asp to watch. It is available for free until May 14, 2012.

Pre-order the webinar-on-CD

Own your own copy of Researching Your Pennsylvania Ancestors by purchasing the webinar-on-CD for just $9.95. It includes the 1 hour 30 minute recording of the class, the complete Q/A session, and 4 pages of handouts. Click here for more information or to purchase.

If you need a time zone converter, there is a great one located here:http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html
After registering you will receive a confirmation email containing
information about joining the Webinar. As usual, I'll start the
pre-webinar warm-up 15 minutes prior to the start time.

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